Audio podcast 2 - the engineering!

Hugh and I continue our discussion of audio and make particular mention of cabling for TV facilities.
Find it on iTunes, vanilla RSS, YouTube or the show notes website.

The next podcast - Audio 101

Hugh and I go over the fundementals of sound and recorded audio in the first of a two-parter Find it on iTunes, vanilla RSS, YouTube or the show notes website.

Crimp tool for all current video ends?

All the wiremen want me to buy them one of these! This tool can do SD01 standard def coax (Image 360), 1694 HD Coax and the newer Din1.0/2.3 mini-HD connectors.

UK electricity demand

After a major power-outage in North London this afternoon I went looking at the National Grid website; there is some fantastic realtime data there about the amount of power the UK is consuming and how much juice is transferred between regions.
I nicked these two applets but click the title link and have a truffle around - 41GWatts currently(!)

Here's an update - interesting article from The Independent on 13th April;

How the Supergrid could help keep the lights on about the electrical interconnects between the UK and other countries; apparently a 900-mile 0.8GWatt link is being proposed to Iceland!